All Quotes by John Ford (dramatist)
“Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.”
“Oh, happy kings,Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.”
“Sister, look ye,I've shook off old mortality.”
“FlatteryIs monstrous in a true friend.”
“Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.”
“Tell us, pray, what devilMen into monsters.”
“MelancholyOf body, but the mind's disease.”
“Philosophers dwell in the moon.”
“Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkensIt runs a headlong course to desperate madness.”
“Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.”
“Tempt not the stars, young man, thou canst not playWith the severity of fate.”
“I am, gay creature,On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.”
“Green indiscretion, flattery of greatness,Thoughts vagrant as the wind, and as uncertain.”
“\tThe joys of marriage are the heaven on earth,Like to a constant woman!”
“GloriesAnd shadows soon decaying.”
“Revenge proves its own executioner.”
“There's not a hairThe journey is not long.”
“Truth is child of time.”
“Love is dead; let lovers' eyesOpe no more, for now Love dies.”
“He hath shook hands with time.”
“Nice philosophyBut heaven admits no jest.”
“I have spentThat you must either love, or I must die.”
“Brother, even by my mother's dust, I charge you,Do not betray me to your mirth or hate.”
“Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.”
“There is a place,Of never-dying deaths.”
“Busy opinion is an idle fool.”
“Why, I hold fateOne thought more steady than an ebbing sea.”
“He is a noble gentleman; withalWho is himself an honour to his title.”
“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear;The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”
“We can drink till all look blue.”